Hey everyone we're here to show you Lenovo Star Wars Jedi challenges game which Gordon and I just tried today now
This is an augmented reality game, and you've probably heard about Virtual Reality mixed reality augmented reality
So augmented reality is when you have a headset, but you can see the world around you
And there's things projected in front of you and that's different from something like virtual reality
And we have an example of that here
This is the Samsung gear where you stick a smartphone in front, and you can't see anything around you
So you're waving around and your friends are laughing at you or
Microsoft hololens, which is augmented reality and it projects Holograms into the environment?
But it's crazy expensive and Microsoft hasn't figured out a way to sell it to normal people yet
Lenovo's game is actually designed to be affordable and accessible to normal people
It does use a smartphone like this moto Z force
And there is a list of phones that it's compatible with and will show you what the game looks like right here alright?
So we're gonna lift the box on the Jedi challenges game
Maybe I should have Gordon do this part
So here on top we have the Jedi challenges lightsaber and Gordon you have two lightsabers right well
I will say your father wanted you to have this
Yes, actually I do have a lightsaber
two of them enough thing take master replicas light saber
Which looks exactly like this almost?
This is very close to the one I think from Empire Strikes Back Lenovo said it's actually the one from
No, they said
it was Anakin's and raised and
I can't remember the other person right because it's supposed to be the one that Luke gets his hand cut off and so it gets
somehow
Alright to put that down over there take that off now. What do we got here?
Wow even even the little baggie has the logo on it is this merchandise thing or what people
So you want to talk about that yeah, so clearly you know this here is the
Gear VR, and and again. This is the big difference is you're looking right through this. It's it's
Augmented reality, or I guess Microsoft might try to call it mix reality if they were to do this yeah
Big difference is what there's a couple cameras here. Yeah, so those cameras actually
Orient to themselves and you using this module and a camera with the official name of this
I think it's called the beacon oh yeah The Vegan, yeah
And it goes on the floor in the direction that you're gonna be facing when you play the game so that helps the headset orient
Itself and know where to put the projection
and I also wanted to show you so we have a cell phone here and
While I'm not sure if we can you want to put it in put all the tape off right now basically
What happens is that?
There's this carriage that you put the cell phone in this goes on the top, and then the image projects down
Onto a through a couple of planes and then on to the front and then it reflects back into your eyes
so there are a couple of benefits there first of all you don't have a smartphone screen glaring inches from your face, but
The other thing is that because you can see through the front not only
Can you see what's around you which we mentioned before but people who are with you can actually see what you're looking at too
So again you're not quite as isolated from the world around you as you may be with some virtual reality headsets now
I sure all of you know that the next Star Wars movie comes out on December 15th
And while we were able to play some current games on this product. There are going to be new
Features that unlock when the movie comes out which we weren't able to see unfortunately
The lightsaber itself has basically you know the motion sensor like you would have in a smartphone
It can tell if you're moving it doesn't make any sound itself
I believe the sound comes out of the phone sound comes out of the bummer up. Let me there's a power switch in the bottom
And the charges through
microUSB this augmented reality headset does come with these other two accessories
Whereas something like the samsung gear and others? It's usually you just getting the headset
The other nice thing is that?
There are some mixed reality things coming out now where you have to get an entire
PC to go with it or make sure that your current PC is up to snuff with a
Decent graphics card and other things to be able to run the thing and then of course you're tethered
You know to the computer while you're trying to play so the benefit of having a smartphone based makes reality is that you're not tethered
you know
But then the issue is do you have enough power coming out of this product here want to try and get that in there the?
App should be starting. You know does the phone have enough power to do something fun now another thing
I wanted to mention is that while there is a
relatively short list of phones that are
Certified compatible with this game right now
And they include the iPhone 6 and up the Samsung Galaxy
s7 and up
And also the Google pixels and of course the Moto Z to force that we have here
Lenovo says that they are adding more phones and also they have connectors for lightning
USBC and micro USB so technically any phone that connects to that which is all phones
Could be used with this headset
They just can't guarantee that the video quality is going to be there or even that the processor is going to be able to
Handle all the gameplay so when we played the game what they did is they set up the phone?
They slid it into the headset they put the headset on and the headset is just as awkward feeling as any other headset
You've got it just a bunch of straps to get it on your head, right
And then you hold the lightsaber out in front of you
And there are a couple of buttons on the lightsaber that you use to point at things and in the game that I chose
You actually had to choose a planet from the Star Wars stories
And I chose the planet of Naboo and on Naboo there are three different games. I could play at three different levels
including fighting with some battle drones
fighting with Darth Maul
Or playing the hologram chess game, and so I picked the battle drones first
And I had battle drones shooting at me
And I deflected them with my lightsaber and one thing the game does is it does offer guidelines?
So it kind of shows you where you should put your lightsaber to deflect things?
And that was very useful when I ended up playing with Darth Maul because as you know Darth Maul has a double lightsaber
And so well he started off with a single lightsaber, and we were sparring away
Then I hit him a few times and he got mad until we put out the double lightsaber
And so those guidelines were very helpful at that time now Gordon you tried the hologram chess game
What was that like yes the whole game chess game?
Which I really liked because I had no fan of any of the Darth Maul characters
Yeah
The chess game was just like sitting in the Millennium Falcon as you're smuggling drugs to the other side of the galaxy
I mean spice let's call it spice and
You would move your chess pieces around on the board
And it was just like they lifted it turned out of the movie so the cool thing I really liked about
about the
Lenovo HMD
Is you still see the real world remember? This is augmented reality? Yes, so it has that whole?
Holographic kind of mean of the original Star Wars, you know the Princess Leia, and the the chess characters look it look perfect
I mean it just looked like you were in front of the tape so there were other projected characters
Whatever so it had a virtual chess board from the Falcon and then they had the characters on it
But you know look. They worked really hard to make it look like yeah, they were holograms and
And the cool thing is you know you move around and stuff would shift with it too right because it does have
Positioning, which is one of the problem with a lot of the phone based VR
There's no real position. Yeah
And this is actually you know the nice thing about this beacon is it's a pretty easy way to set your position other
Headsets you know you have to set multiple things around the room or or do a lot of crazy calibration
Yeah
I like the vibe and so all you have to do is set this down in the direction that you want to play so like
I'm gonna play with Darth Maul, and he's gonna be over there so I put this beacon down right there
You were talking about what you could see let's talk about the field of vision on these headsets right right so the fov which
Is a 33 degrees up and down and 60 degrees wide?
Which is a huge improvement? I few people have ever put on a Holland's. It's amazing technology. Yeah
$3,000 but you really it's like wearing a welding mask you basically see a little tiny spot like about that big
And it really kind of breaks it up on the Lenovo hmd
What is it? What's the fov it's at 60 degrees 60 degrees, so you're just seeing a lot more of the image
and it feels a
Lot less weird with hololens because everything in Hollands as you shift around it gets cut off
There's enough of a window with the Lenovo HMG
I don't know what am I calling right the Jedi challenges that it really does?
Well the other thing is that so Gordon where's class yes
And his glasses actually fit really well within this and that's definitely been an issue with some headsets
Yeah, I cannot like I cannot use these glasses with a vibe or oculus because they're just too big
Yeah, no
This is I really do like yeah?
So Gordon can see around the room and also if he were projecting a game onto the headset
I could actually see what he was seeing if I just looked in here and that's kind of fun, too
Yeah, the other thing they did on on this headset. This is a nice touch see that it has these little
Slits on them, they're basically like what?
Vince Vince
But there so you can see they also let course cool air in so your your glasses
Don't get fog down
But they let you see the ground basically the lenovo says they want you to be able to see the ground
So you don't walk through a glass window and now
Four stories to the ground wellin right now the games are just single-player, so I'm fighting Darth Maul
He's playing holo chess on his own, but in the future in addition to unlocking certain features around the movie
There might be the chance of multiplayer features and upgrades coming to this product in the future
And that would be really cool because when I play hollow chests
I want to let the wookie win
But I can't do that if Gordon isn't the wiki on the other side of the table?
I think definitely the one negative is its it does seem like it's it's for this game
Right so your daydream your gear VR
They're great for looking at 360 videos 360 pictures. Yeah this
At the moment does not is not gonna be great for that well in all it plays is Star Wars games
And we're assuming that if this takes off that they'll have more games
You know more licensing deals so that you won't just be stuck in Star Wars land, but at the moment. This is all
We've got yeah the biggest reason that this is so interesting to us is that it's only
$200 so think about it you do have to have one of the compatible smartphones
But you're getting the lightsaber the beacon and the headset for 200 bucks
I mean that's really affordable for most people right now
I think a lot of people to go while that seems like an awful lot for a fixed Star Wars game
But if you think about it
Daydream and gear VR. It was nothing but you know two lenses in a box right they did it with cardboard originally, yeah
And this was a hundred dollars when it first came out and people thought that was a great deal
So this is a lot of hardware. You're getting a Halloween prop. Yeah for one thing and you're getting you know
positional
Augmented reality well I I mean yeah, I'd love it if this were 150 bucks, and it feels like oh
It's just like an impulse buy
but a
$200 that is still an awful lot of hardware that you're getting I think a hundred for this and 200 for three things with a
bunch of cables right and then of course hololens there's
$3,000 so it's not a bad deal, but you do have to be
Dedicated to your Star Wars games right so you know what else I mean that that brings us to one of the other negatives
You really gear VR
You can watch movies you yeah, and look at pictures that are 360
This as today is not going to work really well as a 360 video view or a 360 picture viewer
Yeah
So do you think it's always going to be Star Wars 2 I?
Would guess that if they do licensing with another movie that there could be other props you know?
But I mean Star Wars is such a huge franchise. There are so many more games. They could do
You know and again like these games only focus on certain movies some of which
Some of us don't even consider a real Star Wars movies
And we're actually looking forward to having them some games that relate to the real Star Wars movies
Yes, and that is actually one thing
I think is good is they did they did they they have there's a there's the snow battle on on Hoth?
There is a Darth Vader, so they seem to be mixing it for
fans of the original and
six-year-olds who like the new movies so
You're gonna see a lot of gadget videos where someone holds something in their hands ago
Look isn't this cool
But then when you actually use it you realize how hard it is
So we actually did take this thing out of the box and set it up so we could tell you the problems that we man
Into what we were doing it, and what did we learn first? You really need to read the instructions
I know I know god forbid you do that
But it's actually not so bad the instructions slide through on the phone with pictures
So it's really easy to follow
and
We had a couple of hiccups that we made it through one of them was bluetooth pairing which is always a pain in the neck
But we actually had to
unpair the phone
And the app and then turn off the app and turn it back on to get the pairing to work correctly and then this
beacon which Orient's you in the game we had the wrong color
There actually there's a little switch on the bottom you can switch from pink to blue
And I just thought I like that blue color
but that wasn't helping us calibrate the lightsaber we had to set it back to pink and you'll probably in any game you have it'll
Tell you which color to put on the beacon and right now
I'm disorienting Gordon by putting that on the table because now his game thinks that's the floor
Gordon what else do you think after trying it here?
It's pretty cool. I this if your star wars fan. This probably will
Be the best Star Wars gift for this season. I think what are you playing right now?
I'm playing that chess game again. Just like in the Falcon
There's no wookie. Though. This is good. Let the wookie win